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“I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me.”
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“But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.”
Source : "Full text: Blunkett's resignation statement", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.
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“it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...”
Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble
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“People must help one another; it is nature's law.”
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“That can be undersold, I think, the importance when you're trying to do something good is that everybody understands the director's vision, everybody believes in it, and everybody can find their own path to supporting it, and that's how you end with a great movie.”
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“When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.”
Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.217, MIRA
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“For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.”
Source : Alma Guillermoprieto (2011). “The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now”, p.104, Vintage
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“I did Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. It was a sequence where the president got captured and they made a doppelgänger of the president who was kind of goofy. They were Second City people who were the producers and writers, and they told my agent, "Well, we know Fred can do the kind of goofy, but we're not sure he can do be the straight president, kind of the Clinton-esque." So I really got my back up and I called my agent and I said, "Goddammit, I insist that I go in and read." And I did a great job and I got the part.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com